> When I was searching this newsgroup for debugging messages, I saw that
> someone was using a UDF to output debugging messages to a log file.
> It does seem like finding a way to return the messages is part of the
> trick.
>

I just add a bunch of extra returning variables to the procedure
and add extra 'suspends with an at # line number and returning the current
values of variables of interest . Now calling the developing procedure
from say IBOConsole, or IB_Wisql making checking and debugging
very easy under real conditions.